DataCup is dedicated to providing digital education solutions adapted to the needs of isolated communities. That's why we visited a school in Morocco where one of our DataCups is deployed, to better understand the challenges encountered in its usage. This feedback is essential to help us gather the specific needs of the schools.
These exchanges with our partners are essential to identify your concrete needs and develop new features that meet them.
In this article, discover how this feedback inspired our latest updates.
Review of two of our achievements:
In 2021, we deployed a DataCup in Niger with SOS Children's Villages. 2 years later, Medersat.com network schools built by the BMCE Foundation received four DataCups. This latest initiative supports teachers by providing them with digital teaching tools adapted to their needs in areas with difficult internet connectivity.
Visit to Morocco: Listening to users at the heart of our approach
During our visit to Ait Yadine School, we observed teachers using the DataCup with their students to enrich their lessons and provide digital literacy workshops both in the classroom and in the computer room.
We were then able to talk to the teachers, the school principal, and the school inspector.
The meeting also identified specific needs expressed by teachers:
- Feed the DataCup with digital resources identified by the school's teachers, so they have a wide variety of educational resources to choose from.
- Integration of Moodle as a more practical production tool
This feedback is valuable to guide our work and further improve the impact of our DataCups.
Major updates :
After our return, we mobilized our development teams and the one working on our documentation resources to solve these challenges.
Today, these DataCups get a major update including
- New educational content in our Documentation Resources
- An upgraded on-board portal for an even smoother, more intuitive user experience
- The Moodle application, which makes it easy to create and manage courses, giving teachers greater flexibility and pedagogical possibilities.
To conclude, every innovation starts with listening to the real needs of users.
Ideally, we work closely with them to understand their expectations. However, we also know that it can be difficult to ask for functionality around technologies or tools we are not yet familiar with.
That's why we work hard to be proactive, imagining and developing features that anticipate user challenges. These updates reflect our dedication to :
- Respond to the concrete problems of our beneficiaries,
- Introducing innovative applications and tools to enrich the digital experience.
See you soon in our next article, where we'll formalize the problems that each new feature addresses and detail how we've designed these solutions to solve them.